adhesion of a transducer
 

I have a transducer for my depth Gage and it has broken free from the bottom of the boat. what cement or glue is needed to fasten it? I would imagine that you cannot use just anything off the shelf?

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I used a two part epoxy from Home Depot or I would think something like JB wield would do the trick as long as it is the slow cure. :drink:

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I have had good luck with mildew resistant silicone, just clean the bottom of the boat well and apply a liberal amount, coat the bottom so that a little expresses out 360 deg around. Will never come loose.

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Get some of the WEST SYSTEM two part epoxy, comes in a one time packet, they are about $3.00 and work great.

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I always use just plain silicone goop. Works great, and is removeable if you change units. My old cruiser has half a dozen old 'ducers epoxied to it's bottom, with the cable clipped... :D

Just use lots of it, and make sure you have no bubbles...

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Thanx i thought there might be harmonic issues.... i have some two part in the grage.... :blaster:

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The two part is good.

What some people are getting at is that you don't want the fast set.

You want like a 30 minute epoxy.
This lets the bubbles out. The bubbles ruin the shoot-through.

Good luck.

Re: adhesion of a transducer
 

you might go with the silicone route first to find the sweet location, then once you are sasified, glue'r down.

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I would think that silicone would affect the accuracy. I'd go with something that isn't compressible.

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It doesn't effect accuracy. Works every time. I've been doing it for 30 years. And before that, my dad did it that way on his charter boats. It works fine, and is removable.

A buddy of mine removes his transducers using Spiderwire fishing line. Just saw it back and forth while pulling under the 'ducer.

Jim

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Mine just arrive in the mail yesterday. Instructions just say to use a slow curing adhesive as a two part system. Specifically says not to go with the fast drying ones as they may crack and alter the readings.

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I have read articles that say to place the tranducer in a sealed, water filled plastic bag, and move it around until you find the best reading location, then glue it down permantely. Never tried it myself, but my current one did not read anything over idle speed. Other day I kicked it while in the bilge and it came up, epoxy and all. Probably all of my problem. Back to my point. :) I had a spare transducer I used as trouble shooting. I put enough water in the bilge to cover the temp. transducer that I layed on the bottom and it worked great. So the bag theory may work.

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Good old Marine-Tex!

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OK so i got the motor running and it sounds sweet. I have been working on a few electrical gremlins so i can splash it when the out drive components get here. I have power to this unit and i glued the transducer back down to the hull. It will not turn on I believe it is junk. Can i get a new display and use my old transducer? can i get a different display and use a Horizon transducer? How often dose the transducer go bad? I have looked for a website and i cannot find one for Horizon..........It is a Standard Horizon Guage

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Those are pretty cheap--the trasnducer alone will probably cost as much as the whole thing. I don't think you can cut and splice able either and get any decent readings.

I had that same box on my SR357 for 5 years now--still works.

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Standard Horizon DS30 model and the transducer is interchangeable for most depth guages. i need a new display. Can i get a small equivilent guage that could cover the holes in the top of the dash that i could use my tansducer? The transducers rarely go bad. I need a display with a type of curved guage pod or similar mount to cover the holes from the existing one. NE ideas........ or shoul do wait till i can afford a small plotter with gps? i have done a littel reaserch and these are expensive.... are they worth it if i live in the Frozen Tundra???? I really only need a new display :rolleyes:

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I think down the road a chart plotter will be in order... Maybe a removable one. i am planning a few trips to LOTO How are the standard Horizon plotters to Garman or Lowrance (SP)?? who has the most reasonable color with a depth Gage that is small in size say 5 or 6 inches?

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I had a Standard Plotter and really liked it. It has a feature that most others don't have--you can write a chart chip at home with The Cap'n or C-Map and upload charts to GPS--or you can download logs from GPS to chart chip and read on computer at home.

I thought it is much better than the SIMRAD combo I replaced it with.

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In my old boat I had a mount on the transom transducer for fish/temp/depth,, worked every time all the way up to 65 mph,, I had a shoot through installed for my color garmin 178C GPS/fish and it rarely works above idle,, thinking of just buying a transom mount and being done with it,, as ugly as it looks atleast it works pretty well..